# Boba vs Skydive

> Skydive scores 52.1 (D) to Boba's 10.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-31

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

- Boba: grade F, 10.3/100, rank #1231 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json
- Skydive: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #899 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1245 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Boba (F)

Good for: Groups who want a free assistant inside a shared chat for planning, drafting and images.

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them

Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.

### Skydive (D)

Good for: A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 41 against 15
- Schema & documentation, 81 against 0
- Agent ergonomics, 59 against 0
- Security & auth, 59 against 0
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 56 against 2
- Transparency & trust, 75 against 39

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's `chat -p`, outside the OpenAPI contract.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Boba | Skydive | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 41 | Skydive +26 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 81 | Skydive +81 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 59 | Skydive +59 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 59 | Skydive +59 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Skydive +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 56 | Skydive +54 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 39 | 75 | Skydive +36 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **10.3 · F** | **52.1 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Boba | Skydive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | humans& ai, inc. | Create, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans& ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026). | Closed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-08-26 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-21 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-21 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 5.5k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (4) | none |

## Verdicts

**Boba.** Boba is a free texting assistant for one-to-one and group chats over iMessage, RCS and SMS, started by sending one message with no card or app. No outside agent can call it, its privacy notice uses inputs and outputs to train its models with no opt-out found, and no status page or security contact was found.

**Skydive.** Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.

## Before you call either

### Boba

1. Don't plan to call Boba from another agent. It answers only text messages in the Messages app.
2. Tell people in a group chat that messages sent to Boba may be used to train its models.

### Skydive

1. Send tasks with `skydive chat -p "..." --agent <id> --json` and pass `--conversation <id>` from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.
2. Don't retry `chat -p` or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.
3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound `use` key when you only need to read. Account-level `edit` keys can create agents and mint keys.
4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.
5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Boba or Skydive?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-skydive.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-skydive.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "boba", "b": "skydive"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare boba skydive`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json

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## Disclosure

- Boba competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.
- Skydive competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.

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